Thread by @FrankMPaul

Right then! It's #OnlyConnect fan fiction Episode 4: Future Overlords vs Carrion Crows.

LION

CLUE 1:

CLUE 2:

CLUE 3:

CLUE 4:

Next up are the Carrion Crows.

TWISTED FLAX

CLUE 1:
Peripheral

CLUE 2:
Polystyrene

CLUE 3:
Animatronic

CLUE 4:
Adamant

After four clues, Cordell spots the connection. “Animatronic?” he quips. “More like ‘Ooh, Matronic’.”
“As in ‘Ooh, Matron!’” explains Hetty.
“That, Hetty, needed no explanation,” says Cordell icily.

The Future Overlords take their pick.

TWO REEDS

CLUE 1:
FC: style of music

CLUE 2:
ED: wet spongy earth

CLUE 3:
GF: item of furniture

CLUE 4:
CC: extinct bird

Once more Galapaga buzzes instantly. “Barbecue sauce!” she exclaims, gloatingly.
“I can’t imagine why you said that,” says Victoria. She throws it over to the Carrion Crows, who get a bonus point and pick the next hieroglyph. Galapaga is dumbstruck.

HORNED VIPER

CLUE 1:
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars

CLUE 2:
Octopussy

CLUE 3:
The Jungle Book

CLUE 4:
Star Trek II

WATER

CLUE 1:

CLUE 2:

CLUE 3:

CLUE 4:

EYE OF HORUS

CLUE 1:
There are many ways to reach the same result

CLUE 2:
Important work takes time

CLUE 3:
Concern oneself with trivial matters during a crisis

CLUE 4:
When visiting a place, follow local customs

After three clues, Hetty spots the right answer, but the team is too shaken for double entendre. At the end of Round 1, both teams have 5 points. The Future Overlords choose a hieroglyph.

ROUND 2: Sequences

TWISTED FLAX

CLUE 1:
Salsa fresca

CLUE 2:
1922 Arctic documentary

CLUE 3:
Company founded by Allen and Gates

EYE OF HORUS

CLUE 1:
(e.g.) UNESCO

CLUE 2:
Close friend or associate (derogatory)

CLUE 3:
Black Klansman author or Apollo 13 director

After three clues, Cordell gives the right answer. “I Apollo-gize for my teammate’s directness earlier,” he adds, then whispers, “See, Lylyssa – I calmed the tension down with a little snippet of wit.”

The Future Overlords are up next.

LION

CLUE 1:

CLUE 2:

CLUE 3:

“Tell us the answer!” hisses Galapaga, but Hermann is consumed with reciting pi, his lips a blur of motion, his voice agonizingly high-pitched. She tries to prize the Brain-Expander off but it’s clamped fast. The Carrion Crows pick up a bonus point and select the next hieroglyph.

TWO REEDS

CLUE 1:
MUZJIKS

CLUE 2:
MUZJIK

CLUE 3:
JAZzY

Neither team can get to this one. It’s the Carrion Crows’ turn.

WATER

CLUE 1:
Mystic

CLUE 2:
Magician

CLUE 3:
Bringer of Old Age

HORNED VIPER

CLUE 1:
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

CLUE 2:
Bleak House

CLUE 3:
Hideous Kinky

When the third clue appears, Cordell coos, “Ooh, kinky!” and launches into such a prolonged fit of titters that he forgets to buzz. The Future Overlords fail to come up with an answer. After Round 2, the Future Overlords have 5 points, the Carrion Crows have 9.

The Carrion Crows face the following wall:

They emerge with 7 out of 10. “That was a cheeky wall, Victoria,” says Cordell, waggling his eyebrows. “A saucy, saucy wall.”

People whose first names have been replaced by their state capitals:
TLN TKFF
NSH VLLW LLMS
RCHMN DWLF
LYM PRV NG

Opposites of comic-book heroes:
DRNG L
NCK C LMNSS
HV NBY
TH CRD BLHLK

Words for snow, according to Kate Bush’s "50 Words for Snow":
W HTT
VL N CH
VNLLS WRM
SR BTD LG

THE END #OnlyConnect

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